Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (unless an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced, uses a 12-point font, employs italics rather than underlining (except for URLs), and places all illustrations, figures, and tables within the text at appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.